Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

by Yunte Huang

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography,
Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited
portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins
conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused
liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in
1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost
implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography,
Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaite...

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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Reviews

CarolJul 05, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

Meticulously researched biography about the world?s most famous conjoined twins.
Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother ...

I wanted to like this book... I really, really did. I've been fascinated by Chang & Eng since Darin Strauss' fictional bio and even have a tattoo of the twins.
This book is well written and well researched, but it is more about the historical period that created an environment ...

This is one of those books that is going to stick with me a long time. There is so much to it!
For many years I've been interested in Chang and Eng, but never really knew much about them. Nor did I know anything about Siam outside of whatever misrepresentations may have been presen...

Fascinating story of twins born in Siam in 1811, the boys connected by a band of flesh just above their stomachs. Bought by an enterprising American when they were teens, the twins were brought to America and engaged in an international tour based on their freakiness. But the boys turn...

ChristineFeb 13, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

NancyMay 18, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

MAPApr 23, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

KarylMay 08, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

David BalesAug 13, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

Keith ChawgoFeb 05, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

BettyJan 08, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

ZulfiyaJul 24, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

SteveAug 15, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

William MatthiesJul 17, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

SheriJun 26, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

Meticulously researched biography about the world?s most famous conjoined twins.
Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother ...

I wanted to like this book... I really, really did. I've been fascinated by Chang & Eng since Darin Strauss' fictional bio and even have a tattoo of the twins.
This book is well written and well researched, but it is more about the historical period that created an environment ...

This is one of those books that is going to stick with me a long time. There is so much to it!
For many years I've been interested in Chang and Eng, but never really knew much about them. Nor did I know anything about Siam outside of whatever misrepresentations may have been presen...

Fascinating story of twins born in Siam in 1811, the boys connected by a band of flesh just above their stomachs. Bought by an enterprising American when they were teens, the twins were brought to America and engaged in an international tour based on their freakiness. But the boys turn...

I had heard of the siamese twins Chang and Eng, but knew nothing of their actual life story. After trying so many times to read this book I still know nothing more than the brief book description on the inside of the book jacket.
For me Yunte Huang seems to go off on long winded ran...

Jaina ShawAug 03, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

Meticulously researched biography about the world?s most famous conjoined twins.
Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother ...

I wanted to like this book... I really, really did. I've been fascinated by Chang & Eng since Darin Strauss' fictional bio and even have a tattoo of the twins.
This book is well written and well researched, but it is more about the historical period that created an environment ...

PamelaJul 06, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Diane HernandezMar 30, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

Meticulously researched biography about the world?s most famous conjoined twins.
Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother ...

NaleneDec 10, 2017

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

KristaAug 16, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

SarahOct 04, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

Clarice StaszAug 17, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

JodiMar 04, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

Lynn NysseJun 04, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

KathleenJan 27, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

DavidFeb 02, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

Joy AdamsJan 27, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

BrookeMay 30, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

Janet SlipakApr 08, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

Lynn DominaAug 12, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

LauraMay 13, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

Mom2nineDec 19, 2017

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

librarian4Him02Jun 11, 2018

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Objectively, this is at least 4 star books. However, in terms of my personal enjoyment of it, 3 stars.
This is truly a "the life and times of Chang and Eng" type of book, as opposed to a traditional biography. Although the book is cen...

Inseparable is a biography about the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The story reminds me of the Elephant Man but Huang has lovingly researched his subject matter with an incredible thorough hand.
The Bunker twins lived from 1811 to 1874. The story follows from their ...

I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
I had never read an in-depth story about Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins" and the impetus for the commonly used phrase. I had heard of them, of course, and seen things on The Mutter Museum in Philadelphi...

I am glad that l listened to this book because it would have been a laborious read! A huge tome with such extensive research- it is an impressive amount of work and l know more than l ever wanted to about Chang and Eng Bunker. This could have also been a biography on Mark Twain or P. T...

I received an advanced copy of this book courtesy of a Goodreads giveaway. If I could give it a 4.5, I would (only because I am very stingy with 5s). This is a well-written and impressively researched examination of the lives of the conjoined twins of Siam, Chang and Eng (Bunker). But ...

As a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to wend my way through the Guinness Book of World Records, and I believe it was there that I first came across Chang and Eng as conjoined twins. As with most of America at the time they were living, I was fascinated by how they could live o...

Interesting but sometimes meandering history of Chang and Eng [Bunker], the famous "Siamese Twins" who were "discovered" by an English sea captain in Thailand in 1824 and later were "purchased" by a promoter and went on an extended tour of Britain and the United States, (and later, con...

The story felt puffed up by the author's attempts to include the Siamese Twins as an integral part of the American social and cultural times in which they lived. These sidelong forays unsuccessfully detoured an interesting story, but one to which the author added few new insights, besi...

Having already read a fictionalized story about the "Siamese Twins" I was interested in this biography. Huang's research is intense and in-depth, yet the book is readable and interesting. I appreciate that he avoids assumptions or putting words or thoughts into the twins, if there is n...

I really enjoyed this book .non fiction is my favorite genre of books .Many years ago I remember reading a book on these twins . I read this while in the hospital with a broken leg .It helped to take my mind off the pain. ...

This is the compelling story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, an amazing pair. The book is also a cultural study of America's fascination with and treatment of the other. ...

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811?1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were ?discovered? in Siam by a British merchant in 18...

I quite enjoyed this thoroughly researched book about the iconic Siamese twins, and I enjoyed it even more for not just being the biography of those twins, even though it would have been interested on its own, but for the book being much more than just the biography. It is the panorami...

The lives of Chang and Eng "Bunker" certainly made for fascinating, eye-opening reading on many levels: immigration and citizenship controversies; human trafficking/slavery travesties in ways I would have never considered; ethical considerations in terminologies such as freaks and mena...

Incredible read. Full of American background history of the time before during and after the twins existed. A book describing the twins and the life that they had - good and bad. Not a book to read through in several sittings. ...

Fascinating read, covering biography, US and Asian history (esp. pre-Civil War era), a thoughtful analysis of the influence of race and immigration, PT Barnum, and even a connection to the Andy Griffith show. Highly recommend; I would like to read more by this author (esp. his award-wi...

This book is amazing as much for all it reveals about 19th century American culture as about Chang and Eng themselves. ...

The title made me buy this book and I'd like you to believe I did so because I wanted to learn what effect Chang and Eng, "The Original Siamese Twins", had on "American history". I'd like you to but that's not the reason.
The truth is I wanted to learn how Chang and Eng lived their...

excellent - very interesting, especially with the background added. ...

This was a Great book to read. I have always been fascinated with the Siamese twins since I was a little boy. I did not know that they lived in the North Carolina by Mayberry where the Andy Griffith show took place.this is a 5 star book. ...

I knew very little of the life of Change and Eng before this book and selected it based on hearing the author interviewed on the radio.
Much of the book details their travels being "exhibited" as curiosities in the early 1800's. It was interesting to know that they were in the area...

I mostly really enjoyed this book. However the sections where Huang quotes sections of fiction by authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville linking them to the twins seemed like a stretch. I had hoped to learn more of how Eng and Chang viewed the world but I suspect that informati...

I stumbled upon this book accidentally, wandering by the "New Non-Fiction" shelves of my public library. I'm glad I stopped and picked it up. The story of Chang and Eng, while not overly remarkable in its strict narrative, provides an important look at how "othered" people both did and...

This was another of my Goodreads Giveaways wins, and it was definitely an eye-opener. I knew a little about the lives of the famous twins, but, this well researched and well written book gave me a much broader window into their lives and their time period than I had before. I had no id...

I bought this book (a rarity) because my skim indicated a full social and cultural history of the times. What caught my attention too was a photo of one of the slaves owned by the twins. What? How did this happen? The common view is of them as part of a sideshow, grotesques for the taw...

Meticulously researched biography about the world?s most famous conjoined twins.
Chang and Eng were joined by a small tube of skin and shared a liver. Today they would have been separated soon after birth. In the early 1800s, they were purchased from their Chinese/Siamese mother ...

I wanted to like this book... I really, really did. I've been fascinated by Chang & Eng since Darin Strauss' fictional bio and even have a tattoo of the twins.
This book is well written and well researched, but it is more about the historical period that created an environment ...

This is one of those books that is going to stick with me a long time. There is so much to it!
For many years I've been interested in Chang and Eng, but never really knew much about them. Nor did I know anything about Siam outside of whatever misrepresentations may have been presen...

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